Saturday, November 24, 2012

A Wrap-Up of Black Friday 2012

All right, so another Black Friday is in the books (or is it Black Thursday now? I'm so confused!). And, as expected, the ensuing pandemonium had it's share of idiotic moments. Here are some of the better ones:

  • Defying stupidity, a Massachusetts man  left his girlfriend's 2-year old asleep in the car on a K-Mart parking while he went inside to purchase a big-screen television. This was at 1:30 am on Friday morning. And just when you think it can;t get any worse, the guy catches a ride home with some else and leaves the child on the parking lot. But I'm happy to report that the television made it home safe and sound.
  • Two people were shot after arguing over a parking space at a Tallahassee, Florida Wal-Mart.
  • At a Sears in San Antonio Thursday night, a man was punched in the face by a "line-butter". This caused the victim to draw his gun. Choose your battles carefully in Texas, because you never know who might be packing. 
  • In Omaha, Nebraska, a shoplifter maced the mall cops. Now, there's a change of events! Gunshots were also reported from the Westroads Mall where nine people were shot to death back in 2007.
  • Not far from where I live, a 14-year old received a beat-down and was robbed of his Christmas purchases courtesy of a group of roving thugs at Arundel Mills Mall in Hanover, Maryland. This is the same location were a casino was recently built. Stay tuned for even more robberies and assaults...
  • A woman was robbed at gunpoint outside a Best Buy in Myrtle Beach.
  • Five people were injured after they smashed through a door at the Urban Outfitters in Santa Monica.
  • There was a reported gang fight at the Woodland Mall in Kentwood, Michigan.
  • Two people were run down by a driver in a Covington, Washington Walmart parking lot.
Aside from these incidents, there were countless episodes of aggressive shoppers storming the doors of Walmart to Victoria's Secret. In many cases, the scenes resembled a bunch of sharks during a feeding frenzy. It's really disappointing to see how our society puts so much importance of material things. Instead of helping one another, we're now killing each other over i-Phones. To say it's sad would surely be an understatement....

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